Where do Professors Send Their Children?

[Anonymous]

BASIS DC.

[Anonymous]

Funny, 22:05, I can't think of one family at BASIS with a professor as a parent. This is not really surprising, since it's a new school with no track record.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny, 22:05, I can't think of one family at BASIS with a professor as a parent. This is not really surprising, since it's a new school with no track record.

Wrong, PP. I know of at least one, but I am not prepared to out the family.

[Anonymous]

oneness.

spouse not in academia (makes 120), but we can hardly afford it and may have to move for a good public school. I will say that academics would pay a higher % of their income for the right kind of education for their kids. In our case that means one that instills a love of learning rather than a love of external rewards (grades, scores). We have a tiny condo and live paycheck to paycheck. We'll do it as long as we can. The academics I know mostly do public because of cost and don't place much value on early, accelerated academics anyway, so maybe this will change as their kids age.

[Anonymous]

Some Georgetown prof kids at Holton.

[Anonymous]

My dad was a professor. We couldn't have afforded private but he always made it pretty clear that he thought a diverse socio-economic environment was more important than any improvement in the quality of education provided at private schools.

[Anonymous]

Maret

[Anonymous]

Public magnets all the way until "fit" becomes an issue (high school or college)

[Anonymous]

prof here. gds. with professional school salary, professional spouse, and modest lifestyle, not too much problem for two children. three would start to hurt.

[Anonymous]

Yu Ying.

[Anonymous]

What's the Norwood thread?

We're new there, but we know two professor families already. Actually, there's a huge range of professions there.

[Anonymous]

I'm a law Prof- my kid is at Lowell. There is another kid (out of 13) of a prof from another DC law school in my daughter's class.

[Anonymous]

Another with a kid at GDS. Many profs (I can think of a half dozen off the top of my head) send their kids here, but most are either married to a spouse in a high-earning profession or are professors in a professional school (law, usually).

[Anonymous]

I'm a religious studies professor. Planning to send my kid to Waldorf.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lawyer, spouse's family in academics. We're at Waldorf along with others. There are several musician's families here too.